English PEN

Over the past few years, we’ve had all too much occasion to write about Turkey’s ongoing crackdown against journalists, publishers, and writers of all kinds, which has spiked in intensity since 2016’s… Read more »

As we’ve chronicled on MobyLives, for ten months now the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji has languished in prison waiting to appeal a two-year sentence for publishing sexually explicit content in his novel The… Read more »

When employees of London-based academic publisher Zed Books discovered, on attempting to log into the company’s Facebook account last week, that said account had been deactivated, they quickly came to… Read more »

It hardly seems a coincidence that the closing of the only remaining Ukrainian-language newspaper in Crimea last week coincides almost exactly with the second anniversary of the Russian annexation of the… Read more »